A sorry situation: Two booked for defrauding aged father

Retired PAF official says sons ‘withdrew over £200,000 from his account with forged signatures

ISLAMABAD: A sessions court has ordered the police to book two brothers who allegedly defrauded their 91-year-old father of millions in Pakistani rupees.

Petitioner Muhammad Shafi retired from Pakistan Air Force (PAF) in 1958 and moved to London in 1964.

In an application submitted on June 18, Shafi said his wife Saleem Akhtar died in 1990 and he married Shabbir Bibi, in 1994.

His sons — Zahid Shafi and Shahid Shafi — resented their father’s decision.

He alleged that Zahid and Shahid stole his chequebook and withdrew £201,000 from his accounts using forged signatures.

He said the bank statement showed that Zahid, Shahid and another person, Tahir Wajahat, had withdrawn the amount.

Shafi has also maintained in the application that his sons forcibly took him to London on October 28, 2015 and detained him in a house.

Shafi said he contacted his second wife and she arranged for a new passport for him to return to Islamabad.

He said that on June 14, Zahid and Shahid forcibly took possession of his house in I-8 and also took away 15 tola of gold ornaments, an iPad, mobile phones and 5,000 British pounds.

On June 21, Shafi filed an instant petition before the Additional Sessions Judge Rakhshanda Shaheen, seeking an order for the police to register a case against the suspects.

On June 27, the court ordered the Industrial Area police to register an FIR.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 29^th, 2016.